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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Faith wanted a bento yesterday too, so she took the same thing as her brother. Again, not our prettiest effort ever, but both kids really enjoyed helping out in the kitchen. They really like to cook, and I love showing them that the food is healthy & still good tasting!

On the left, we have a sweet potato-zucchini croquette, topped with a marble cheese turtle. On the right, we have four turkey meat "blobs" with apples & carrots. They should be meat "balls", but when your sous-chefs are 7 & 4, meat "blobs" are what you sometimes get. :o)

5 comments:

Oh my goodness. I swear I'm going to start copying these posts and planning out my kids lunch menus accordingly. I so love your ideas and creativity. See, it just goes to show people that food doesn't have to be freeze dried, deep fried and pre packaged to be interesting to kids. I have totally given up on school lunches.......that is until something changes there.My 14 year old son has signed up with a company that goes to schools and talks to kids about nutrition, making good nutritous choices and starting a school lunch revolution. He's got it goin' on. I'm glad he feels strongly about this. It's important.Thanks for sharing your ideas.

I made the turkey meatballs for 3 kids tonight (mine & 2 friends). The friends ate them without too many complaints. My son, on the other hand, ate 3 servings of meatballs! He loved them! Thanks for sharing the recipe.

Made these today, delicious! I'm waiting on my son to get home from school to give me the kid perspective, but I ate several of them myself. I baked them on a greased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes, instead of cooking them on the stove.